Microsoft Made RealNetworks
Prime Target, Documents Show

WASHINGTON -- Microsoft Corp. planned to attack rival RealNetworks Inc. much the way it targeted the Netscape Navigator Web browser, internal documents made public in Microsoft's antitrust trial showed.

Competing with RealNetworks' RealPlayer video software was viewed inside Microsoft as a priority similar to the Internet browser war of the mid-1990s, a battle that led to the government's 1998 antitrust case. A series of internal 1999...